The Viking World

<p>Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.</p><p>Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted. </p><p>Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe.</p><p>This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Viking Age Scandinavia</strong> People, Society and Social Institutions. Living Space. Technology and Trade.<strong> </strong>Warfare and Weaponry. Pre-Christian Religion and Belief. Language, Literature and Art <strong>Part 2: The Viking Expansion</strong> The British Isles. Continental Europe and the Mediterranean. The Baltic. Russia and the East. The North Atlantic <strong>Part 3: Scandinavia Enters the European Stage </strong> The Coming of Christianity. The Development of Nation States (ríki) </p>